COURSE

Lantern Stories: Night Sutras For The Ones Still Awake

Night doesn’t just get quiet. It gets honest. This course is for the ones still awake — night workers, overthinkers, caretakers, anybody carrying invisible weight into the bed. Eight nights. Eight lantern stops. A short night teaching. A simple practice. A modern story built to let your shoulders drop. We move through the real traps: replay, tomorrow-dread, the inner critic, loneliness, money fear, after-noise… and the final night where you stop trying to fix your whole life at 2 a.m. No homework. No pressure to finish. If you fall asleep mid-lesson, that counts. Lantern’s on. Leave what you’re carrying at the door. The night can hold it.

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Meet your Teacher

Juan Vega (Monk Mode Society)

Hancock, WI 54943, USA

Juan Vega is a veteran, father, and lay Buddhist practitioner who teaches Street Dharma—practical, story-driven meditation for real people under real pressure. His work blends modern parables, simple mindfulness practices, and Buddhist-rooted insight into tools that help listeners unwind, downshift, and rest. He teaches as both student and teacher, drawing from lived experience with late hours, heavy thoughts, and the everyday demands of work and family life. This course is designed to feel human, grounded, and usable—especially for night workers, overthinkers, and anyone carrying a loud mind into the dark.

8 Days

2 students

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11 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

The Diner At 3 A.M.

Tonight is for the ones who can’t clock out. In this first lantern stop, we name the late-night work-mind, tell a modern story from the after-hours world, and use one simple practice to help you set the day down for now. If you fall asleep halfway through, that’s part of the design.

Lesson 2

The Bridge Of Heavy Shadows

Tonight is for the replay mind — the part of you that keeps running the same scene, trying to get a clean ending. This lantern stop brings a modern story, one quiet teaching, and a simple practice to help you set the replay down and let the night move forward.

Lesson 3

The Ghost Train

Tonight is for tomorrow-dread — that feeling like the future is coming fast and you have to stay ready. We step into a modern story with a little mystery, name the pressure, and use a simple practice to stop feeding the “what if” train so you can rest in what’s actually here.

Lesson 4

The Night Editor

Tonight is for the part of the mind that turns one mistake into a whole identity. One weird moment becomes a headline. One rough line becomes “that’s who I am.” In this lantern stop, we meet the night editor, cut the story down to size, and use one simple practice to zoom out so you can stop living inside one bad frame and let the night go quiet.

Lesson 5

The Unseen Walk

Tonight is for loneliness — the quiet kind that makes you feel like you could disappear and nothing would change. We walk through a modern story, name the lie clean, and use one simple practice to loosen that invisible feeling and come back to what’s true.

Lesson 6

The ATM Glow

Tonight is for money fear — survival math in the dark, the kind that follows you from the shift all the way into bed. We step into a modern story, name the lie, and use a simple practice to stop letting the machine run your night so you can rest without pretending bills aren’t real.

Lesson 7

The After-Noise

Tonight is for the ones who get home tired but wired — the phone glow, the TV temptation, the “just one more” that keeps the mind lit up. We meet the after-noise with a modern story, a clean teaching, and one simple practice to stop feeding the noise so you can finally power down.

Lesson 8

The Truck Stop Lantern

Final night. Tonight is for the unfinished weight — the calls, bills, worries, and loops that try to climb into bed with you. We end with a modern story from the road, a clean teaching, and a simple practice to help you rest even when life isn’t fully handled yet.

COURSE

4.7

• 10 DAYS